Sucking or feeding bottle



May 15; 1928. 1,669,892

C. BECK l SUCKING 0R FEEDING BOTTLE Filed March 20. 1925 6" Beck Mb gf Patented May 15, 1928 UNITED STATES CARI; BECK, OI VIENNA, AUSTRIA.

SUGKING 0R FEEDING BOTTLE.

Application filed March 20, 1925, Serial No. 17,124, and in Austria March 28, 1924.

This invention relates to improvements in sucking or feeding bottles, and its essential feature consists in that the bottle itself is of the shape of a pear with flat sides and that the bottle-neck is disposed laterally and at an incline, and whereby a hole for the reception of a valve is provided in the bottle underneath the bottle-neck.

A further feature of the present invention consists in the particular construction of the valve, as well as in the formation of the side-walls of the bottle.

Compared with similar known arrangements the bottle according to the present invention has the advantage, that only that quantity of air passes automatically into the bottle, which corresponds to the quantity of liquid sucked out of the bottle, whereby it is prevented that the suckling or baby sucks in. too much air. Further the liquid cannot subsequently pass into the mouth, as the sucking action is necessary for drawing air into the bottle.

()ne mode of carrying out the present invention is shown by way of example on the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which.

Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate the feeding bottle in front view and side view respectively.

Fig. 3 shows on'an enlarged scale the valve in section.

The body of the bottle f is of the shape of a pear with flat sides and the neck is disposed laterally and at an incline. A hole l for the reception of a valve o is provided underneath the bottle-neck. The valve '1) preferably is made of rubber and consists of a conical member provided with an enlargement or collar w above the bottom end and with a passage 0 extending from the proferably flanged end I) downto the said enlargement w, and from the latter down to the bottom end of the valve the latter is provided withfia slit 8. When pressing or forcing the valve into the hole Z of the bottle, the enlargement or collar w of the valve is. deformed and after having entirely passed through the said hole, the collar will expand again and take up its original shape, now preventing the valve from dropping out. The air-supply can be regulated by' forcing the valve 0 a greater or smaller distance into the hole Z of the bottle f, whereby the air-passage o of the valve is narrowed to a greater or smaller extent. Thus the valve can be adapted to the sucking force of the suckling. Owing to the arrangement of the collar 20, the valve is properly tightened in the hole Z of the bottle and further is prevented from dropping out. ()Wing to the peculiar pear-shaped construction of the bottle, the centre of gravity of the latter is disposed very low, so that the standing conditions and life of the bottle are increased considerably, because the bottle always drops with its bottom onto the floor in case of dropping down and therefore cannot easily break. Depressions a for grasping the bottle are provided in the side walls of the bottle near the centre of gravity, so

that the bottle can be inclined with ease and.

its contents can be easily emptied through the inclined neck. The large rounded off corners between the bottom and side Walls of the bottle render more difiicult the breaking of the bottle and an accumulation of foreign matter or dirt at these places. As shown a graduation or scale may bearranged at one of the walls of the bottle.

I claim 1. In a feeding bottle, a pear-shaped laterally compressed and obliquely disposed neck which extends towards that side-wall of the bottle on which the latter rests when.

in use so that the mouth of the bottle assumes the lowest pointon this side and the bottle can be sucked quite empty, said body CARL BECK. 

